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I know that several years ago, Monsanto did a community study looking
at baseline knowledge and attitudes...
Beryl

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>Our program is developing a formative evaluation tool to assess high
>school students' understanding and interest of genetics, with an focus
>toward the ethical, legal, and social issues of research focused on
>gene-environment interactions.  Given that the target audience is made
>up of high school students, I'm wondering if there are any interactive
>tools out there that museums or programs have used to do this.
>Additionally, does anyone know of examples in the literature that
>demonstrate successful evaluation tools to assess knowledge of genetics?
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>Thank you for any anecdotes or resources you can send my way.
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>Sincerely,
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>Kendra A. Mingo
>Assistant Director, Community Outreach & Education Program
>Director, Hydroville Curriculum Project
>Environmental Health Science Center
>Marine Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center
>Oregon State University
>223 Weniger Hall
>Corvallis, Oregon 97331-7302
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